Does anyone do it like this?

[@idahotim4083]

I feel your pain rocks breed more rocks it is a never ending battle

[@familyfarmlife]

Ya…. I wish they’d just stop😂

[@micahsattler1268]

@@familyfarmlife what part of Texas?

[@Bowfinger6383]

@@micahsattler1268 the rocky part, obviously 😜

[@sina892]

​@@Bowfinger6383 🤭

[@mcduck5]

Thats because you are loosing soil to erosion, if you sort that the rocks will stop

[@everestfalls]

The rock harvest seems great this year.

[@MagnakayViolet]

The rock farm dream in reality 😂

[@PinkPoo]

Yum

[@Mrmarcus501]

😂😂

[@DataLog]

I didn't know you could grow rocks.

[@AgzagaSocial]

LOL

[@CashisKingtrucking]

You got to pick up the little rocks too. That's the ones that grow up to be the big rocks.

[@murkyturkey5238]

Exactly 😂

[@cowmann3555]

make sure to cut it by the root so they dont grow back

[@BroccoliMan308]

​@@cowmann3555 yeah, that's how they getcha 😂

[@ddoubleg]

Fr 😂😂😅……

[@lauraparker6301]

​@@cowmann3555😂😂😂 exactly

[@meech42069]

8500 acres is like a whole damn county 😭😭

[@thegreenerthemeaner]

Far from it. 8500 acres around here is getting almost average. Farming 18-20,000, thats getting up there.

[@chriscarter5846]

That's the average grain farm in Saskatchewan Canada then there are farms like Monette with 150,000 acres

[@Shervan96]

@PequenoPipothat farm is almost as big as Spain lol

[@deadknuckles6346]

@PequenoPipo22 million acres it’s the Mudanjiang City Mega Farm in Heilongjiang China

[@nathanholy]

13 square miles is huge ion care what any of you say

[@silentmayan5427]

The reason there always seems to be rocks is because you dont take them far enough away. They just follow their pheromone trails back to their home by next season.

[@khaleddoudechnumber1473]

pheromone???

[@silentmayan5427]

@khaleddoudechnumber1473 Yes, that's how a lot of wild life navigate their environment and find their way back to their nest

[@khaleddoudechnumber1473]

@@silentmayan5427 a rock isnt alive. A pheremone is released by a living being

[@dangerm52]

​@@khaleddoudechnumber1473 r/whoosh

[@silentmayan5427]

@@khaleddoudechnumber1473 ah, the naivety of youth. I'm jealous.

[@wasntme3651]

Damn, 8500 acres is massive.

[@gagegriffith3308]

Yeah ridding that much land of rocks would be impossible

[@Adamu98]

Crazy thing theres bigger farms in the great plains states.

[@mikebastiat]

Lots of rich rural folk who dress like they're poor

[@lyndahammond8883]

Wasn't Me: yeah, well, that's Texas, and don't you ever forget it!

[@sheldonsimon4484]

@@mikebastiat huh? They are farmers, so they dress like farmers

[@sebastianjohansen2142]

This is the kind of job that slowly consumes your soul because it never ends.

[@matthunt7390]

Wrong. It feeds the soul and makes true character!!

[@griffithwes0074]

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

[@tomsfruitstand6821]

@@matthunt7390Especially getting to spend time and make memories with the old man

[@thelonelystankmuncher8879]

I'd rather have a manual labor job than a job that makes me sit in a cubicle

[@rexx2338]

​@@thelonelystankmuncher8879what's your job

[@lyndseyfifield]

We had an 80 acre farm that I thought was too massive to handle. I am... shooketh at the idea of THOUSANDS of acres!

[@paxundpeace9970]

For sure they are not without season workers

[@Lakeman3211]

I’m nearly 60, I’ll bet I’ve moved 2-3 million lbs of stone in my lifetime, sometimes a 12 ton truck in 1 day…and still at it!

[@RealAthrey]

12 ton truck in a day !! 💀

[@tjsbbi]

Keep at it. You'll get all of them.

[@bluntly-]

@@RealAthrey Lobster buyer here , we buy the lobster and will take out lobsters until the crate weighs 107 pounds , so picture a ship out of 200+ crates that just came out of the water , most I ever done was the exact 200 mark and that adds up too 21,400 pounds i lifted within just a couple hours , don’t underestimate yourself nor anybody else !

[@danielp4507]

We would fill a payloader bucket 12 or 15 times a day for a week

[@spartoiss488]

Its because of tornado ? We don't have rocks falling from the sky in france

[@larryrunnels1190]

Rocks heat and cool at a different rate than the soil around them so they will "crawl" to the surface. They make attachments for tractors to pickup rocks.

[@ImpetuousPorkus]

Oooh thank you for this info. I kept wondering how rocks seemingly appear out of nowhere every year after picking them up.

[@larryrunnels1190]

@@ImpetuousPorkus most people with pipelines crossing their property include regular rock removal from leased right of ways.

[@calebverdu3091]

So long as there are nephews and cousins, they ain't buying a rock picker though 💀

[@larryrunnels1190]

@@calebverdu3091 rocks will be crawling out long after neices and nephews are not around.

[@calebverdu3091]

@@larryrunnels1190 Oh for sure.

[@tomgates316]

Current method is to fly a drone over the fields, it/they map all the surface rocks by size. You take the tractor with the rock picker attachment to the fields and follow the “shortest path” map it generates to drive around and get them with the rock picker. When full, the picker just dumps at edge of the fields in your existing rock piles. No hands ever need to touch a rock.

[@samgraham6628]

Old Man I knew who had made a good life and was able to retire would still take his gator out and pick up rocks like that almost every day. They only had cattle but I guess it was just habit for him and something to do. He was 86, half stooped over, deaf, his hands had those giant knuckles from arthritis and he would STILL go get rocks in the field all by himself. Even though he had the money to have somebody completely cater him he still wanted to work. Born and raised hard working Texas man💪

[@kennethlopes7515]

Sounds like my dad.

[@mercytowers2221]

Lovely story of a hard working farmer.

[@robtaylor6806]

Rocks reproduce faster in a planted field than bunnies do in the middle of spring

[@lilsteroids619]

Why though??

[@DTux5249]

​@@lilsteroids619rocks heat and cool differently from soil. This means that over the course of the year, they'll slowly creep out of the dirt.

[@lilsteroids619]

@@DTux5249 that's crazy but what's crazier is how did you see my comment through all these other ones

[@icantgetdubs2433]

Maybe cuz u got 500+ likes dumb ahhh

[@kitsune.u4ea]

@@DTux5249 thank you so much. This confused me so much. I was wondering how the rocks keep coming back. I thought someone littered rocks across fields nation wide every year.

[@troyrosenbaugh9935]

Did that growing up on our farm. It sucked, and yes never-ending.

[@erbewayne6868]

I started helping pick up rocks when I was six on my grandparents farm.

[@FastHouseracing]

Yeah same we had to do that because it was cattle ground and there was a lot of rocks

[@woozii.capalot]

How do they get there?

[@FastHouseracing]

@@woozii.capalot For me the reason was it was right next to a mountain

[@FastHouseracing]

@@woozii.capalot I guess he just has a lot of rocks in his ground

[@DJG184]

You can put a "free rocks" sign on the pile. City folks love rocks in their gardens.

[@michellehaley3060]

I just want to give a great BIG SHOUT OUT to ALL of our farmers in America...THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR your hard labors and delicious foods!! God Bless ALL of You!!❤❤❤❤

[@themrchrister08]

As a Texan I can confirm, the rocks are in fact never ending…

[@thcall6441]

I think they multiply or earth burps them up. It’s like the little Dutch boy sticking his finger in the dike. 😊😊

[@bfuryy]

We live on a big rock

[@shelleyoxenhorn833]

Philadelphia too

[@rongray4118]

Northern Nevada... 1975 MB 406 and the rake and blade (windrows)...

[@rotunda57]

They fall from the sky at night

[@jimzimprich6969]

Rock pickin. Oh my. My childhood in North Idaho If if falls through a pitchfork... It stays.

[@darnelljackson2160]

I used to pick rocks from my Grandpa's fields in up state NY. I was amazed how they always grew back year after year. LOL

[@DirtbikesAndMore]

Hey I found another North Idaho farm boy!

[@darnelljackson2160]

@@DirtbikesAndMore I grew up just over the line in NW Montana. Sanders County. I miss that neck of the woods.

[@jimzimprich6969]

@@DirtbikesAndMore P.F. ? You ?

[@20102010b]

Yoo N Idaho represent. I grew up on a farm just south of bonners

[@JDCIncAccount]

“These rocks keep becoming more *sedimentary than the wheat we grow each year.”*

[@davidh9897]

I remember doing that on our PA farmed. I told my Grandpa, I think the Groundhogs are really Rockhogs. He laughed really hard. I miss him. Thanks for bringing back great memories with him. God Bless

[@WillInWestPalm]

My grandpa used to call these "Easter Rocks" to get free labor from my brother and I. His story was that the Easter bunny put rocks out for us every year to pick up. And we were more than happy to pick them up.

[@b.c.4902]

😂

[@CampfireRachael]

This is a fire idea

[@joseyabut4688]

Now your property 😅

[@stevecourville199]

We say in Massachusetts here that they’re our winter crop. We build walls out of them.

[@ameliaestrada8023]

Where do they come from

[@couchpotatoes5158]

Ikr, there are these stone walls all around, we have one in our back yard from god knows how long ago

[@kaedensokay]

MA farmers represent!

[@cjd2275]

I live in Massachusetts where the hell u picking rock potato at

[@kgw100]

Northeast is a different story. Waaay more rocks and less top soil. All that glacial till and river rocks. More rocks than soil usually 😂

[@MichelleRougier]

So lucky to own so much land. What a blessing. U could help so many people that have nothing.

[@cooper8318]

They are. By feeding them

[@garettdoornwaard4822]

You dont get blessed with land. You take out a loan from the bank for it.

[@MichelleRougier]

@@garettdoornwaard4822 who do you think led them to the land to begin with and made it possible for the purchase of the land? It was a blessing from the creator.

[@mrsavagemans]

@@MichelleRougierland was for sale they bought land with money ooh ohh ah ah

[@lanceholder4131]

@MichelleRougler must be poor to be subtlety trying to guilt in the YT shorts comments… how sad haha

[@LindaKimble-np9gx]

Thank you for your hard work God bless you in Jesus name Amen

[@azaradog1804]

Only 8 acres and a wheelbarrow. I swear they come from the center of the earth!

[@ozzy_fromhell]

8 acres sounds like a lot brother

[@liebendeinsam]

​@@ozzy_fromhell sounds like only. 😂

[@ItsJustGravy]

Had to do this every year as a kid. Good times ❤

[@kitsune.u4ea]

What do you mean every year? How do the rocks keep getting back into the field? Who keeps replacing your rock pests? Did the migrate there over the winter?

[@dubb5508]

​@Kitsùne it's something to do with the ground freezing in the winter.

[@ItsJustGravy]

@Kitsùne they appear out of nowhere I swear 😆

[@skylaninaction]

I did this too. terrible times. I do not miss it one bit

[@ItsJustGravy]

@@skylaninaction builds character.

[@user-zy3ci4ky2r]

This was a summer job for us kids ,while growing up in potato country,of Northern Maine. And Picking Mustard.

[@LongLiveFarmLife]

You could also get a stone picker that could be pulled by a tractor. That would make that job a whole lot easier

[@lynnlange488]

My father-in-law did that back in the late 1930’s and 1940’s. The rock walls they made still stand in Central Texas.

[@druginducedfeverdream1613]

They'll likely stand for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. North Britain, Scotland and Ireland have lots and lots of very old walls made of rocks. Flint and slate mostly, I think, but they've been standing for a veeeery long time. Very solid too, quite bad for who ever collides with one. Being from Texas and Britain myself this is super cool to hear there are old walls in Texas. Maybe that could be a business to get into for people who have the money, here let's build an aesthetic rock wall that can't be moved once it's done 😂

[@Morhaw]

The dry stone granite walls in West Cornwall are 2-5 thousand years old. We have a stone burial chamber called chûn quoit dated to 1500BC. But then I live in a place where my house is older than your country

[@milbruh6671]

​@@druginducedfeverdream1613 yes, there is a burial site in Ireland that is over 5000 years old made out of stone. Newgrange its called

[@lockraptor13]

Bro this was my childhood

[@scotmandel6699]

Same here in South Dakota. Milking cows was worse.

[@richardnott9587]

I thought only we grew them in Kansas. Guess they grow that abundantly everywhere.

[@matthewcullen1298]

My dad lives on a mountain that is volcanic soil. You literally can't walk 3 feet before the next one. He had to get an excavator in two have a small house yard..i feel your pain Mate 😊

[@retardationnation869]

This happens almost everywhere people farm

[@Glipsnarp]

Where I am from we pull up petrified wood that was burried since early 1800s. Frost pushes it up to the surface

[@torrycole6477]

Lemmon S.D. ?

[@charlesbaril3038]

We do that at least once a year too, (sometimes twice) we also pick up smaller rocks, it takes so long!

[@yarnybart5911]

In Europe they use the rocks to build walls around the fields. Looks great and created partitions and clears the land.

[@UMMrealLoud]

It's like the rock gnome keeps putting more out there for you, it's never ending!

[@petek6522]

Flashbacks of my childhood... we only had 5 acres of that and hand planting, weeding, fertilize and troy built tilling

[@betsypennock3954]

Rocking picking! We did that on the farm in Missouri!

[@brettkowalski]

Picking stones and rocks was a hobby of my grandpa. We used a backhoe and loader tractor. Every spring. Grandpa loved thunderstorms. His thinking was the thunder "vibrated the stones to the surface and hard rain washed them clean to make them easier to spot".

[@normferguson2769]

I ran the mechanical rock picker up and down a field that was littered with 1’ diameter rocks. I dumped the rocks neatly in a pile at the edge of a swamp. At the end of the day they asked “did you actually get any rocks picked up”. I went back often as those rocks popped up faster than onions.

[@Nomomdonttouchmethere]

Only a Ferguson could find the rock grabber….

[@benp3485]

Where are these rocks coming from? 😮

[@andyburkinshaw2623]

Wait wait wait every year??? How the rocks get back 🤔🤔🧐🧐🧐

[@nczioox1116]

Probably water

[@Will-lh5yg]

Yes, reminds me of the good ol' days growing up on a farm outside Hico. Never worked harder building 5 strand barb wire fence and rock picking only we used a truck.

[@shelbyoffrink4424]

We do the same on our farm. Last year our side by side’s front end was nearly off the ground!

[@foxrun3768]

We did a lot of rock picking years ago. I understand the pain.

[@Skribbles]

Farmers are the real heros this Nation needs 🥰

[@idontwannaidontwanna7307]

Yup!!! Same here in Queensland 🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾

[@ralphbuschman3364]

I remember doing for a friend on his 800 acres. He did actually sell some to landscaping contractors.

[@garymurt9112]

Try that here in Southern Missouri, you can pick that little bed full without moving and without having to move your feet either. You plow a field then pick rock for days in a little 5 acre field.

[@nothingnothing1799]

The ground is like ¼ clay and the rest is rock cant go down more then an inch or 2 without finding some

[@garymurt9112]

@Nothing Nothing sounds like southern Missouri

[@juleshunter9214]

Yeah, same here. I'm from northern Lower Austria in Austria.

[@garymurt9112]

@@juleshunter9214 guess if everyone had lush loamy topsoil, we wouldn't know what hard work was

[@DVANCEK9]

Only a can am would last long enough to get the job done. I’m saying this as a former dealer of both brands. If a can am defender tears up, you did something stupid! If a Ranger tears up you simply looked at it wrong.

[@nickelkins2434]

Deere all the way

[@chrisnoname2725]

But why do people use these in a field and not just get a ute (truck) with a tipper tray?

[@Ryan-um8ug]

Ha! I used to pick rocks as a kid every summer for money. Loved it! Insane how many rocks there were.

[@satishkanuri]

I would love to visit your farm one day hopefully.

[@mgdwj]

I spent many hours of my childhood doing this same thing. We didn’t have a fancy side by side though. We had a stick shift ford. 7-8 years old I would put it in granny gear and then get out and walk beside the truck tossing rocks in the bed. All for .25 cents an hour. Don’t get me started on chopping cotton.

[@starchaser1437]

What years were you picking stones and cotton? I'm 21 did it back in like 2008-2015 roughly

[@mgdwj]

@@starchaser1437 this would have been back in the early to mid 90’s.

[@EnriqueReyesJrREALTOR]

Honestly to me that looks like fun! It definitely keeps you strong and healthier than most people get after years of sitting behind a computer.

[@fritzpipkin792]

Wow I remember doing this after plowing, we would ride in the tractor bucket field after field before planting beans great memories and taught us how to work

[@emillykkegaard4947]

In Denmark every farmer pick rocks up by hand. It's normal here

[@whocanitbenow5368]

Eight THOUSAND five hundred acre FAMILY FARM? Congratulations on keeping it! That's dedication, EXCRUCIATINGLY HARD work, family loyalty, and determination!That's beautiful! 🙏❤️

[@toddman22410]

Looks pretty fucking easy lmfao. Must be nice being rich.

[@MarkWilliams-vp7xw]

We use to set the tractor straight in low gear running by itself with no driver while we all walked in front of it and picked rocks throwing them in the bucket

[@georgemartin4963]

We did the same with our pick-up letting it go alone in granny gear.

[@electrocanman]

I picked bales out of the field doing that with our old flatbed.

[@Archk1]

My son needs to spend a few summers with your family. God bless you and your family.

[@Fierriel]

I have 1 acre of pasture in AZ and have to do this constantly. It’s amazing how many rocks just show up!

[@colincrew1857]

America really got family farms bigger than whole countries

[@Bowfinger6383]

Ah yes, the annual harvesting of melon boulders. Looks like a good crop this year.

[@gamingripper7115]

Hey I needed place where i could play football. Now I found it 😂

[@johnlindsay7273]

You know rocks float, don't you? Especially in Texas, where everything is bigger.

[@alexscott5497]

8500 acre farm.... my dream dude. Kids my age now a days want a mansion without working for it and earning it. If I could buy even 1000 acres of land and build myself a little house on the land. Not the biggest, but to have the nicest shit inside the home. Have plenty of space for my dogs to run to park and work on my businesses heavy equipment. My garages would ge gigger than my home. As a mellenial, most of us don't work. My grandfather showed me what hard work does for someone what taking pride in your work means what it feels like to work so hard to can barly walk back to the truck. The satisfaction of seeing the transformation of someone's home its satisfying so satisfying. I get to help my community and help older couples keep there independent lifestyles without doing all the housenwork and repairs and I take pride in my business and with more hard work dedication discipline and work ethic I'll only grow and hopefully own my 8500 acres one day. God bless everyone and be the best you that you can be everyday

[@danw.7935]

My grandfather had to do this while walking uphill to and from school every day.

[@bobstark4020]

In the snow, after milking the cows,with cardboard in his shoes. Did i forget anything?? Lol

[@timwenell63]

Against the wind!

[@bobstark4020]

@Tim Wenell oh yeah, forgot that one.

[@winkfinkerstien1957]

And it was uphill... Both ways! 😆

[@sidewaysaction9983]

We built dry stone walls with the rocks in Yorkshire

[@deedeewoodard4728]

There were so many at my horse barn I started bringing them suckers home and using them for landscaping they look really awesome in a Texas yard LOL

[@Svendskommentar]

I've done that too. so many times. Our farm was not that big and we used a tractor. :)

[@Wade-1]

What a blessing

[@dontmakememad6759]

Wish I grew up in a family that had even an acre of land. Enjoy that freedom and god bless you brothas

[@angelicamichelle1646]

That's terribly sad cuz my mom worked 3 jobs for years many years so all of the girls in the family can have one acre of land and the brother of the family wants to piss it away and the girls don't care except for me that bought her own place to live here

[@outsideview9052]

I remember doing that for hours and hours. Then after you plow the field more rocks are brought up to the top. Now they make machines to do this job.

[@wowitspj6224]

Uncle was right ! John did farm rocks 😂😂

[@sethwittrup9688]

Be thankful you have a family farm. Wish I had something like that I could be proud of.

[@icantgetdubs2433]

I’m thankful I saw the same video you did pa

[@loganreed6679]

Dude I had to do that on the ranch I work on and let me tell you it's 11500 acres in west Texas and the rocks are just the same. Keep on ranchin

[@milkymoo8252]

😂😂😂 Cam Tucker used to do this in Missouri 😂😂😂

[@karlatycholiz2284]

Those rocks look just as heavy as when we picked 50 years ago what a great work lesson thanks dony

[@user-NO_ONE840]

Here in Minnesota, rocks are our second crop pick them in the spring, fall is for the grain crop lol 😂

[@katewyse8228]

That was me about a month ago, right before we planted the last field of the season.😂

[@thedonleroy]

The real fun fields are the ones where you pick load after load & finally see no more rocks. Then you work the field once & end up having to pick a couple of more loads before you plant.

[@nanettewhite3093]

I and hubby lived on 5 acres in N.W.Arkansas. I would pull up big rocks to make room for planting perineal bulbs and flowers at the edge of pathways or edges of lawn. But I would need to pick out smaller or bigger rocks that seemed to come up to surface. At least every to every other year. Limited my green thumb at times. Had to dig out flower beds I made near our house. Our dogs would dig up the dirt, with the plants being ruined. I finally got 5 gallon buckets. Filled them with the dirt, plants and bulbs. Dogs were too big to be comfortable laying across plastic edges of the buckets. Finally had nice flower beds. Never was into growing vegetables, too intimidated by their needs for insect control and forest animal prevention.❤

[@corelreef6586]

It’s a never ending battle…I feel ya bro.

[@RippingItUp]

I feel you man it’s always a chore

[@leonacollins1785]

I remember when I was a kid I helped my dad pick rocks out of our garden. That was in Central Oregon. Luckily, our rocks were not that big!

[@williamainsworth2256]

I remember doing this as a kid. One of my uncles had an old Datsun pickup truck with a plastic bed liner that was used for this.

[@hambuga69]

What kind of seeds do you buy to grow rocks?

[@familyfarmlife]

It’s a secret 🤫. Can’t give away everything

[@juliancortez3250]

Pebbles

[@danstark462]

Don't be igneous

[@matthewcullen1298]

​@@danstark462 😂

[@glp046]

​@@juliancortez3250chocolate pebbles . Fruity pebbles don't work as well

[@bobroberson9286]

Building a rock house for the rattlesnakes ⚡

[@adrianjesaitis4068]

This was my father’s favorite project to give us kids. I feel your pain.

[@pattidrier9593]

Our Michigan farm had rocks. when we were kids my dad drove the tractor pulling a stone boat, my sister and I had to pick up rocks , put them on the stone boat and then by hand transfer the rocks to a stone pile at the edge of the field. I hated it. Always hot and we were little kids. Dad said the yearly freeze and thaw pushed the rocks to the surface.

[@sydclark5581]

Loved that job as a kid. Good money and kept fit

[@erbewayne6868]

You were paid?

[@HistoryGeek420]

@@erbewayne6868 you weren’t chained?

[@daftnord4957]

this is me and my cousins' childhhod. got 10 bucks a day lol

[@familyfarmlife]

$10 isn’t bad!

[@KF1_KARTING]

Mate you could build some cool as stone walls around farm where you need them.

[@linfraredl4906]

Thank you for the explanation of how picking up rocks works I was very confused on the interaction between the rocks and your hands

[@richardbird5697]

Oh the weekend and school holiday fun as a kid

[@SCIFIguy64]

They show up each year because they’ve always been there, they just get exposed after dirt runs off combined with root growth helping them up

[@karenpatrech4346]

When I was young, I asked my Father to bring home rocks in the Tractor's Carry-all Bin. On my days off I would build Garden Edges out of the Rocks, until I had Finished all the Gardens. My Parents had no time to make pretty Flower Gardens so I did that, and also the Home Vegie Garden. At the end of each day on the Farm when Dad had the Carry-all on, it was quick for himnto just collect that amount, rather than spend hours doing it all at once.. But we only had 5 acres on the HomenFarm and 22 Acres on the leased Farm, 2 kms up the road. It belonged to a Widow. She had a Pension so she just leased it to my Parents for $5 a week. This was from the early 70's.

[@rickykey1175]

I am 62 and still picking them up on my 50 ac farm the lord blessed me with the place hes makes me work for it and I will here from Bedford county Virginia

[@camohawk6703]

The never ending struggle of farmers.

[@michaelfrench3396]

We grow two crops in Maine. Potatoes and rocks. And I'm pretty sure we harvest far more rocks every year

[@sumakwelvictoria5635]

That's free rocks. Good building material. They look like limestone or marble? If you guys start building a dug-out hut, root cellar, cistern or a pond - those rocks will be really handy.

[@sharonwilbourne7256]

Interesting. Michigan field stones are mostly smooth and rounded. More of them surface every year. We pick them up every year too because if a harvester pucks one up it can irreparably harm the equipment as it shoots through. We do the same things with our picked rocks. Our rocks can be different kinds and variously colored depending on their source material. Our rocks were ground down smooth by the 1-2 mile thick glaciers that once moved across our lands. When the glaciers moved they would pick up rocks and boulders as they moved across the lands. The bottom most part of the glaciers is churned up, picking up rocks, then dropping the rocks as the glacied moved or when they melted. The glaciers ground down everything that they crossed over including mountains. Because of the glacier movements, large boulders, called erratics, are found everywhere. Some are buried, while others are fully exposed. The buried ones can cause harm to equipment. We have machines called rock pickers which are run through the fields to pick up smaller stones.

[@danielalamo2075]

We had to do that. We had to pick up everything from pea size to volleyball and a few larger. We only had to clean up a 40 acre field.